See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 3 (Unpublished): Avoid overpraise of the praiseworthy, And people will not act resentfully. Avoid overvaluing what can be possessed, [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 17 (Unpublished): The best leaders, Dependence disappears. The next best leaders, Are praised. The next, Are feared. The worst, [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 57 (Unpublished): Govern a country with justice. Address conflict with surprise. Conquer the world with patience. How do I [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 54 (Unpublished): There’s no uprooting a rooted center. What’s held truly endures. Allow It to enter— benefit. All held [...]
Family businesses are a defining force in the economy—not just because of their scale, but because of what they hold. They span everything from corner stores to multi-billion-dollar enterprises. They're woven into the fabric of communities, regions, and industries. And they carry something most organizations don't: memory that extends backward through generations and forward into futures [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of Chapter 71 of the Tao Te Ching (Unpublished): Seeing that you don’t know is brilliance. Not seeing that you don’t know is blindness. To [...]
I asked three different AI systems to help me solve a complex organizational challenge last month. Every single response gave me a decision tree, a prioritization matrix, and an action plan. Not one asked me how the people involved were feeling about the change. Not one suggested I spend time listening before deciding. Not one questioned [...]
There are moments in life when whatever you thought was holding things together simply stops. Not gradually, not politely—just stops. For me, it was a mountain biking accident that fractured my neck at C2 and left me with a traumatic brain injury. The kind of moment where you don’t need a specialist to tell you something [...]
There’s a tendency—especially in leadership circles—to treat trust like a cultural nice-to-have. Something you work on after strategy, after execution, after results. A layer. A tone. A sentiment. That idea doesn’t hold up very well when you actually look at how systems work. Jack Gibb saw this clearly long before most of us were paying attention. [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of Chapter 76 of the Tao Te Ching (Unpublished): Life comes— soft, supple. Death comes— hard, inflexible. Soft and supple— living. Hard and inflexible— dying. [...]